Amon Amarth is taking over the world! They are heading into the world of comic books and board games. Their new project is called Amon Amarth: The Great Heathen Army from Z2 Comics. Writers Dan Watters (Abigail, Lucifer) and Ario Murti (Death For Hire: The Origin of Tehk City) teamed up with cover artist Montos to create a graphic novel and board game collaboration.

Amon Amarth: The Great Heathen Army Board Game

“Heathens from shore to shore! We are thrilled to announce that we’ve partnered with Z2 to bring you The Great Heathen Army as a full-length graphic novel,” said Amon Amarth . “It’s a brutal story of war, bloodshed, and glory during the time when the Viking raids brought terror to the shores of England. We’ve also produced an accompanying replica of The Great Heathen Army board game that you see in our music video of the album title track. We hope you enjoy it. Skål!”

“Getting to work with Amon Amarth on The Great Heathen Army means diving into myth, history, and heavy metal, which sounds like a perfect date night to me,” Watters explains on the writing process. “Our aim with this book is to make the reader feel like they’re truly there, facing the terror of the invaders in that old world where monsters and gods lurk beneath every stone and in every bloodthirsty eye. And also to show some Vikings doing some terrible things with some very big axes.

The Great Heathen Army, is a novel written by Amon Amarth and Z2. It is being released in a standard hardcover edition and an exclusive deluxe hardcover edition. The deluxe edition will be signed by the authors. Which comes with three illustrated art prints. Also, a Silver Pennigar Viking collector’s coin, and a limited-edition board game that includes an oversized battle map. The game will also be available separately.

The Great Heathen Army Board Game will be available separately. In the deck-building war game, players assume the role of the Vikings on the attacker’s side or that of the Anglo-Saxons on the defender’s side; each side will strategize their own goal to defeat or repel the other in absorbing, hours-long campaigns.
The Great Heathen Tour’s invasion of North America with Carcass, Obituary, and Cattle Decapitation is now nearly halfway complete, and tickets for remaining cities are still available.